• bioemerl@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Yes, Microsoft exerting this sort of control over their operating system does deeply concern me which is why i switched to Linux and you should too

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      1 year ago

      Linux Mint reporting in. I’ve been running it on all my machines for… over 6 years now, not sure how much longer than 6 though. Did not look back, I can do everything I want without issue.

      I, too, enjoy having an OS that doesn’t fsck with me.

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      1 year ago

      It is because of rumors about Windows starting to implement this type of measures that I moved to Ubuntu… That was shortly before Windows Vista came out, back in 2006.
      I never went back again, except briefly on an air-gaped machine under 7 to play Skyrim and Grim Dawn.

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        1 year ago

        In other words, you switched out of fear of restrictions that still haven’t manifested nearly two decades later

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          1 year ago

          I swapped to Linux for similar reasons many years ago. The initial idea was to hedge and get familiar with it so I had peace of mind. I ended up staying in the Linux sphere for most of my devices , except for my music production machine that still run windows.

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          1 year ago

          They haven’t? Yesterday my computer updated without my permission and started popping up a screen that nags me about how I need to switch to an online Microsoft account in order to continue to use the operating system.

          A few weeks ago I tried to disable Windows updates using a test scheduler job and despite being an administrator and going through the command line it told me I do not have the permission to do this.

          The restrictions are here and they’re getting worse.